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||Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (d. 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor | ||Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (d. 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor | ||
||1890 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980) | ||1890 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980) Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Делоне́; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone. | ||
||1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819) | ||1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819) | ||
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1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of interstellar crimes against mathematical constants.